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Isaac Schönberg
(* April 21st 1903, † February 21st 1990)
Life
In 1930, he was awarded a Rockefeller fellowship, which enabled him to go to the United States, visiting the University of Chicago, Harvard, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. From 1935, he taught at Swarthmore College and Colby College. In 1941, he was appointed to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. During 1943–1945 he was released from U. Penn. in order to perform war work as a mathematician at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. It was during this time that he initiated the work for which he is most famous, the theory of splines.
In 1966 he moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he became a member of the Mathematics Research Center. He remained there until he retired in 1973.